December 12, 2007

Hacking the iPod Mini

Jennifer has a pink iPod Mini. It's an old-school First Generation 4 gig unit (Model Number A1051). I'm waiting to hear from the Smithsonian on whether they want this thing or not. In the meantime, I figured I'd get iTunes off of it and see if I could use it to play MP3 files.

So, I downloaded version 2.1.19 and installed it, but it keeps giving me an error message when I try to delete the songs that are in the iPod. The error message is "Access violation in module 'WS_iPodTrans.dll'. This sucks. I even tried installing it on Jen's computer, and got the same results. I even tried the older version (1.0.2.0.16) and get the same errors.

So, I tried installing SharePod 3.6.1 instead. This didn't work either. It couldn't find the iPod, crashed, and then suggested I run iTunes. Nice.

I have no idea what's going on with this freaking thing. I decided to restore the iPod to factory settings. Unfortunately, this didn't work either.

In the end, I just installed iTunes. iTunes sucks in so many ways I don't want to go into it. I despise iTunes and I hate iPods. But I didn't buy them. They ended up under my control. So, I'm using iTunes. Let the laughter begin.

Posted by Rob Kiser on December 12, 2007 at 12:47 PM

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